"Benefits: Department of Woeful Practices"

The message being sent through the benefit system is that the government is intensely relaxed about making the poor poorer

In this new world of rough justice, most claimants will receive no real justice at all. The government has proposed abolishing legal aid in social security cases, even though these naturally involve people in no position to foot their own legal bill. The coalition's creed is looking less like the liberalism that it proclaims, and more like a desiccated libertarianism – which talks up the freedoms of people with means, and hurls those with none to the dogs.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/08/benefits-department-woeful-practices